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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 36 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 12 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
of the bellows to Anacharsis the Scythian, who was coeval with Solon. The anchor and the potter's wheel are also ascribed to this man by Pliny, Seneca, and other Romans; the declaration, however, is quite inadmissible as to the potter's wheel, and equally untrue as to both the bellows and the anchor. Homer mentions the potter's eing left on the outside. The several openings are sewn up, and the neck, which serves as a spout, is tied. Such bottles were used by the Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans, being mentioned by Homer, Herodotus, and Virgil. They are also used to the present day in Spain and Sicily, and other Mediterranean countries; they are called b at the present day, so far as the infusion of malt is concerned, but no mention is made of the use of hops. These do not appear to have been used by the Greeks, Romans, or early Germans, though the plant grows wild in Europe. It is first mentioned in a letter of Pepin (A. D. 752), who speaks of humulonarioe (hopgardens). It is
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
eautiful alloy was known long before the true theory of its production was understood. Calamine was known to the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians, but does not seem to have been considered as a metallic ore. It was ascertained empirically that fusing co which air was heated by the adjacent fire, and from which the air passed into the room. They were used by the ancient Romans (see hypocaust), and in the Arab palaces of Cordova, in Spain, about A. D. 1000, being imbedded in the walls, and carryinnt Egyptians to Thoth, who is held to be the original Mercury. It was in use among the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Greeks, and Romans. The name is derived from the simple form of a basin with a small hole in the bottom, which, being placed in a vessel The cymbals were used in religious and patriotic observances by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Jews, Etrurians, Greeks, and Romans; by the Greeks in the worship of Cybele, Bacchus, and Juno; indeed, Xenophon says that the cymbal was invented by Cybele,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
elve periods, which were only the equivalent of our hours at the equinoxes, when days and nights are equal; in summer they were longer and in winter shorter than at the equinoxes. The Chaldeans, Syrians, Hindoos, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans thus divided the daylight into twelve periods or hours, while the civil day was the solar day and had twenty-four hours. The dial of Ahaz may have had a vertical gnomon on the upper one of a series of steps, the time being determined by the shadois also used by the Chinese. Their twelve hours of day and twelve of night were also each dedicated to a genius called Nau (hour). Night was held to precede day: The evening and the morning were the first day (Gen. i. 5). The Chinese, ancient Romans, modern European nations, and astronomers generally began or begin the day with midnight; the Chaldeans, Syrians, Hindoos, and Persians with sunrise. With the former he is a great fact, with the latter a god. The Egyptians, they said, were t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
y 25, 1865. 50,760H. F. WheelerOct. 31, 1865. 55,752H. F. WheelerJune 19, 1866. 58,064W. J. ChristySept. 18, 1866. 73,494Boyd and TylerJan. 21, 1868. 88,540Boyd and TylerApr. 6, 1869. 103,694F. WessonMay 31, 1870. 106,083Simpson, Gray, and RomansAug. 2, 1870. 112,803Gray and RomansMar. 21, 1871. class B. — breech-block moving with relation to barrel. 1. Sliding Longitudinally Backward. (a.) Operated by a Lever. No.Name.Date. 747W. JenksMay 25, 1838. 7,443W. W. MarstonJune 18RomansMar. 21, 1871. class B. — breech-block moving with relation to barrel. 1. Sliding Longitudinally Backward. (a.) Operated by a Lever. No.Name.Date. 747W. JenksMay 25, 1838. 7,443W. W. MarstonJune 18, 1850. *8,317H. SmithAug. 26, 1851. *10,535Smith and WessonFeb. 14, 1854. 15,995G. W. MorseOct. 28, 1856. 16,797W. C. HicksMar. 10, 1857. 20,825G. H. SouleJuly 6, 1858. 20,954J. H. MerrillJuly 20, 1858. *30,446B. F. HenryOct. 16, 1860. 30,714J. BoyntonNov. 27, 1860. 32,032J. H. MerrillApr. 9, 1861. 32,033J. H. MerrillApr. 9, 1861. 32,451J. H. MerrillMay 28, 1861. 33,536J. H. MerrillOct. 22, 1861. 33,847D. MooreDec. 3, 1861. 34,859C. B. HoldenApr. 1, 1862. 35,284W. H. ElliotMay 13
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
arp, and it is said that he was a master of thirty-two other instruments. This was about 1063 B. C. The magadis of the Thracians was a three-cornered harp, with twenty strings arranged in octaves. It was used among them in the time of Xenophon. A band of 300 harpers was in the great procession of Ptolemy Philadelphus, preceding a column of 2,000 yellow bulls, with gilded horns and frontlets, crowns, necklaces, and breastplates of gold. Egyptians, Jews, Persians, Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Saxons, Welch, Irish, all had their harps. The number and material of the strings differed, and also the shapes of the frames. Irish harp. The Welsh harp was strung with gut. The Irish harp was strung with wire. Donagh, the son of Brian Boiroimhe, a king of Ireland who was slain 1014, sought protection at Rome, carrying the harp and regalia of his father, and presented them to Pope John XVIII. in order to obtain absolution for the murder of his brother Teig. Adrian IV. urged t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
raphy.) The battery of a local circuit. The latter is one which includes only the apparatus in an office, and is closed by a relay. Loch′a-ber-axe. The battle-axe of the Highlanders. Lock. (Anglo-Saxon, loc, an inclosure or fastening.) 1. A device having a bolt moved by a key, and serving to secure a door, lid, or other object. The ancients, though possessing many valuable arts and great skill, do not seem to have been successful in locks. Those of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans were clumsy contrivances. Denon has an engraving of an Egyptian lock of wood, which is similar to the one shown at A, Fig. 2980. The locks used to the present day in Syria are much like those used over 2,000 years ago in Palestine and in Egypt. Thompson mentions that the steward of the Carmelite Convent, on Mt. Carmel, opened his magazine with a key as large as a club; reminding him of the passage, And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder. — Isaiah XXII. 22. Th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
e Castro, in the reign of Catharine, Queen of Portugal, pledged one of his whiskers to the merchants of Goa, as security for a loan of 1,000 piasters. The whiskers belonging to the image of Confucius are supposed to be capable of imparting wisdom and manly beauty to any one who may wear them. Unfortunately, decapitation is the reward of any one who removes them from the image, so that their virtues are never tested. Artificial hair was used by the Egyptians, Carthagenians, Greeks, and Romans. A splendid wig has been preserved in one of the Egyptian tombs, and is now in a European museum. Wigs were again brought into use in France about 1629, and the practice spread throughout civilized Europe. Kings, courtiers, and the devotees of law, physic, and divinity were not full dressed without a wig. The absurd idea yet obtains. Horsehair and goat's hair yet protect or parch the legal and judicial brain in the tight little island. See hair, par. 6, page 1047. Cortez found the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
of an inch. The arrangement enables the distance to be pricked off at the same time the angle is set off. Trigonometer. Tri′go-non, or Tri′gon. A small harp or triangular lyre used by the ancients; the Assyrians, Greeks (tri/gonon), and Romans (trigonum). Tri′labe. （Surgical.) An instrument used in extracting foreign substances from the bladder. It has three fingers, which are expanded and contracted after the instrument is in situ. Trim′mer. 1. (Carpentry.) A joist in quality of the work. Trow′sers. A bifurcated garment for the legs and lower portion of the body. They were called braccoe by the Romans, and regarded by them as barbarous (tegmen barbarum). They were not worn by the Greeks or republican Romans, but were afterward used by the emperors. They were the native dress of the Medes, Persians, Phrygians, Sarmatians, Dacians, Belgians, Britons, and Gauls. The Latin word braccoe still survives in the English breeches and Scottish breeks.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
the progenitor of the stock of the domestic sheep. The steppes of Central Asia are its home, and thence it has spread. Among the bones of quadrupeds found in ancient caves throughout Europe, those of the sheep are not noted by Cuvier, Buckland, or De la Beche. We read in Pliny, Varro, and Columella of breeds of sheep of gray, brown, russet, black, and golden colors. The spinning of wool was well known in the time of Moses, and was practiced among the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans at early periods of their respective histories. The Romans are believed to have introduced the art into Britain, and to have had a wool factory for the supply of the Roman army in Britain, at Winchester. Sheep are mentioned in an English public document of 712, in which their price is fixed at one shilling. The mother of the renowned Alfred the Great was skillful in the spinning of wool, and instructed her daughters in the art. Mr. John Coxetter of Greenham Mills, Newbury, had two S
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), Z. (search)
arious similar alloys are formed, some of which are distinguished by specific names. The prepared oxide is extensively used as a pigment, and the sulphate is the white-vitriol of commerce. It is not found native. Its principal ores are the red oxide; the carbonate, or calamine; the sulphide, or blende, the dark varieties of which are termed black-jack by the English miners; and the silicate, which is usually found associated with the carbonate. The metal itself was unknown to the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians, and in fact in Europe previous to about the middle of the sixteenth century, though it is said to have been used in India and China from an early period. It is produced in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The fact that certain ores yielded a yellow copper (brass) was early known, and the product was highly esteemed; but it was not understood that it was a true alloy, nor was zinc obtained distinctly. This was partly owing to the fa